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after a very Scenic uh Riverboat Rod
we've just arrived at the widecast camp
which is where we'll be watching the
efforts uh and preserving uh turtle eggs
and going out on patrol with them at
night as they try to keep poers
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away
my name is magali started as a volunteer
as well as a research assistant and
luckily I got in contact with DJ who
proposed me um to be the biologist of
the Pak station so let's take a look
this is base camp here yeah yeah exactly
so we have civil cabinas where uh the
volunteers can can sleep and the staff
are living here as well fulltime how
many volunteers do you usually have here
at once it really depends on the season
right now we have only three volunteers
two of them are staying like for two
month period so it's big commitment
towards and in March for instance which
is spring break back in the US between
LA toruga felis and white cast we had
200 volunteers passing through wow and
sometimes we have no one so we have to
do all the work without any help of the
volun there a lot of work yes and what
are we looking at right uh right over
here okay so those are eyes boxes it's
from The Nest we had in the Hatchery uh
that unfortunately was destroyed um
because of the high tides and waves so
there's Turtle there's turtle shells in
these all these yeah we have nest in
every single box you have one Nest
yeah when you're on the beach there are
these six or seven main rules uh there's
no smoking no drinking uh no mosquito
repellent we don't use any white light
cuz Turtles are very sensitive to white
light as well so all the light will be
done with red light no cell phone on the
beach cuz it is a formal white light and
it can be a distraction and uh no one
walks alone on the beach at night so um
we also have a very strict
non-confrontation policy with poachers
so more than likely you will see
poachers on the beach tonight but
completely ignore them pretend like um
they're almost not even there because we
don't have any form of confrontation
with them so this is about like a scale
leatherback turtle she's a little bit
larger so like one really important rule
about the turtle is that we never cross
in front of her face so you never want
to break kind of her line of sight cuz
you don't want to disturb her the main
job of the volunteers is to help with uh
securing the eggs and taking
measurements so the turtle is she's
going to emerge out of the water and
she's going to crawl up on the beach and
she's going to dig an egg chamber so
like a big tube in the sand with her
back flippers and your job is pretty
much to hold this bag and kind of make
sure all the eggs go go inside the
bag right now we're taking some of the
eggs that uh were just dug up uh that
were under threat of erosion and we're
taking them to the new Hatchery so they
can stay there safely um until they're
ready to
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hatch the Hatchery when we started to
build it there was at least 20 M of
Beach but because of the erosion has
been eating away the entire Hy CH so we
have to relocate them without moving the
eggs in any way otherwise we probably
going to detach the embryo and it's
going not going to be able to to give up
afterwards so it's like one more
additional problem to the poachers and
yeah global warming who doesn't love
it it's a lot of work between having to
do this you know the erosion of the
beach and the poachers it's kind of a
miracle that any of these Turtles even
make it back to the ocean at this
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point